Aaron Zitner is a reporter and editor in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau. We're discussing his new reporting on a new WSJ/NBC poll that shows plummeting levels among Americans of patriotism, religiosity, and desire to have children. I do note that the starting point matters, a subject the third link below (from the Washington Post guy) touches upon, by which I mean that the drop in the last 25 years in patriotism looks enormous, but if you started the chart 25 years before THAT, you'd see a line that went up and then back down.
Americans Pull Back From Values That Once Defined U.S., WSJ-NORC Poll Finds - WSJ
Some incredible (and bad) stuff in here that goes way beyond the patriotism questions that are getting all the press: Actual poll questions and results
Some thoughts on the results by a Washington Post (liberal) reporter: That jarring new poll on ‘patriotism’ (msn.com)